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Identify this socket? D:

satanicguardian

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Hey guys, this is posted in the distributed computing forum, but I thought just posting this picture in here might give me a better chance of working out what it is, I'm pretty sure it's a xeon board, but can anyone tell me what socket this is?

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That looks like an X58 board so LGA1366 or LGA1567 (triple channel memory gives it away). Pretty sure it's 1366, 1567 looks a bit different.
 
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It's not a socket but an LGA.

Looks to be LGA1366 or FCLGA1366 kinda like this board:

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So 1366 or 1567? Hmm I'm trying to work out what chip it could be then, the clock I recall is about 1.8 on the chip, but I can't really get the heatsink off and check because it's not mine to dismantle, I'm looking into buying it and getting a second chip and some more ram for folding :)
 
kiel367 said:
helios its a server board not a standard one so xeon of some description not x58
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X58 is the chipset and it supports all Nehalem based CPUs including Xeon ones. There are two sockets available for motherboards that use the chipset, LGA1366 and LGA 1567.

satanicguardian said:
So 1366 or 1567? Hmm I'm trying to work out what chip it could be then, the clock I recall is about 1.8 on the chip, but I can't really get the heatsink off and check because it's not mine to dismantle, I'm looking into buying it and getting a second chip and some more ram for folding :)
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I'm pretty sure it's 1366. The few 1567 pictures I can find look different.
 
Helios1234 said:
X58 is the chipset and it supports all Nehalem based CPUs including Xeon ones. There are two sockets available for motherboards that use the chipset, LGA1366 and LGA 1567.



I'm pretty sure it's 1366. The few 1567 pictures I can find look different.
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Yeah I think you're right. It looks like a 1366 :) what xeon's are available for this socket? I think it's quite old so probably a discontinued xeon?
 
satanicguardian said:
Yeah I think you're right. It looks like a 1366 :) what xeon's are available for this socket? I think it's quite old so probably a discontinued xeon?
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You will still find a few on ebay. To find what CPUs are supported, best thing would be to check Intel's website. There doesn't seem to be much logic to their Xeon line and which is supported on what. I think the X55xx, L55xx and E55xx and above are supported.
 
As said, its LGA1366, LGA771, LGA1567 and LGA2011 look visually different.

The board looks to be from a HP ML150 G6, still a very capable machine, it will take pretty much any LGA1366 Xeon including the big hex core monsters.

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ubersonic said:
As said, its LGA1366, LGA771, LGA1567 and LGA2011 look visually different.

The board looks to be from a HP ML150 G6, still a very capable machine, it will take pretty much any LGA1366 Xeon including the big hex core monsters.

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That must be it ;O for some reason though, when it was our main server, it was INCREDIBLY slow, sometimes would hang for 20 minutes and be constantly maxed out on ram and cpu :\ I don't see how it could be a beast cruncher :O
 
Chips have to be identical to run in a dual board like that, and not all the 3xxx/5xxx series Xeons that work in that board are multi-processor compatible.

From a folding POV, on that list (which doesn't cover all the supported CPU's, just the ones available as standard) the E5502 is basically a glorified i3, the E5504/E5506 are i5's and the E5520/E5530/E5540 are i7's. An i7 920 will beat any of those chips and a 2600K/3770K will annihilate them. If you are aiming at folding then you would have to go dual CPU for it to be worth it, and go for right for a pair of quad core hyperthreaders, otherwise its a better idea to grab a cheap Socket 1155 board and a used i7 2600K.

Even if you do go for a pair of hyperthreading quads its not going to beat a LGA2011 rig with an overclocked 3930K.

It depends how much you wan't to spend on folding really, but buying an old server isn't really the best option, as standard with one 1.8GHz dual core it will struggle to out perform an Ivy Bridge Celeron.
 
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